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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 22:36 -0400, Linh Dang wrote:
>> Is it safe to convert those spin_locks to mutexes?
>
> A spinlock is a mutex. Do you mean convert to semaphores?

yes

> Why?

reduce latency with preemptable kernel. I've tried that. In my test I
hammered jffs2 pretty hard (for typical flash usage, no kernel
compilation here) and everything still seemed ok.

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Linh Dang